Collection Highlights
The Peale Family
Date:
1773-1809
Object Number:
1867.298
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
"Town Spring" or Reservoir, Winchester, Virginia
Object Number:
1945.580.39
Date:
1864
Medium:
Graphite on paper, from a disassembled sketchbook
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 7/8 x 7 1/8 in. (12.4 x 18.1 cm)
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower center in graphite: "Romisey Price."; inscribed at upper center: " 'Town Spring' or Reservoir"; various descriptive annotations; verso inscribed with detailed description of the spring house mechanism.
Description:
Civil War Drawings Collection. Engraved for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 31 December 1864 (XIX:483):228, as "Views of Winchester, Virginia--Town Spring". The verso is inscribed with a lengthy description of a unique mechanism in spring house that was destroyed by Union forces.
Credit Line:
James B. Wilbur Fund
Provenance:
John T. Kavanaugh Collection, Rutherford, New Jersey, 1945
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
